Metal wheel-hub.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

E. R. WAGNER METAL WHEEL HUB. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20. 1963,

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented June 23, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD R. WAGNER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO E. WAGNER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NORTH MILWAUKEE, WIS- CONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

METAL WHEEL-HUB.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,637, dated June 23, 1903.

Application filed February 20,1903. ri l N 144,2 (N modem erence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to hubs of the class shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 719,282, dated January 27, 1903;

and its main objects are to provide a hub of this class with means at its inner end for h olding it on an aXle and with a closure and guard at its outer end, thereby dispensing with a nut or other fastening at the outer end of the axle.

It consists in certain novel features of construction and in the arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter particularly described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings like letters designate the same parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a side View of a hub embodying my improvements, the spoke-flanges and one end of the barrel being shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section 011 the line 2 2, Fig.

1. Fig. 3 is an end view showing the spokeflange and closure at the outer end of the hub; and Figs. 4: to 9, inclusive, are detail Views of the separate parts of which the spoke flange at the inner end of the hub is composed.

The hub herein shown and described is designed for use with an axle having a dog or detent to engage with an internal groove or channel in the inner end of the hub, and thereby hold the wheel in place on the axle without the usual nut orother fastening at the outer end of the axle-spindle.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, a is the hubbarrel, consisting of a straight metallic tube formed near its ends with external shoulders or projections b for determining the position of the spoke-flanges and holding them thereon. At the outer end the hub is provided with a spokc-flange and fastening like or similar to that shown and described in the abovementioned Letters Patent and consisting of two disks 0 and d, fitted and secured on the barrel (4 and embracing the inner ends of the spokes e. The outer disk (Z, which is notched and clasped over the inner disk 0, is formed with an outturned annular rim f. A circular convex plate g, preferably covered with rubber or other elastic or soft material to prevent marring furniture or other articles, is

fitted and pressed tightly into place inside of the rim f, with which its periphery engages, thereby securely holding it in place. This plate forms a closure for the outer end of the hub, giving it a finished appearance, besides serving as a guard to prevent marring furni ture and interior woodwork, this class of hubs being used mainly in baby-carriages.

The spoke-flange and fastening at the inner end of the hub is composed of two disks h and i, fitted on the barrel a and embracing the inner ends of the spokes e at that end of the hub, together with. a notched circular bandj. The disk h is preferably formed, like the disk 0, with an outturned rim around its central opening to aiford a wide bearing on the barrel and an abutment for the disk 2'. The disk 2' is formed with an outturned peripheral rim 7c. The bandj fits 011 and surrounds the rim is on the disk 2' and is clasped at its inner notched end over the disk h. At its outer end it is formed with an inturned flange I, which abuts against and projects inwardly beyond the rim k, forming therewith an internal annular groove or channel for the engagement of the dog or detent which holds the wheel in place on the axle.

Various changes in the minor details of construction may be made without departing from the principle and intended scope of the invention.

I claim- 1. In a metal wheel-hub the combination with a tubular barrel and return-bend wire spokes, of a spoke-flange and fastening consisting of two disks fitted on said barrel and embracing the inner ends of the spokes, the outer disk having an outturned peripheral rim, and a band surrounding said disks, notched at its inner end and clasped over the inner disk and having at its outer end a iiaiige which projects inwardly beyond and abuts against the rim 011 the outer disk, forming therewith an internal annular channel, sub stantially as described.

2. In a metal wheel-hub the combination with a tubular barrel and return-bend spokes, of a spoke-flange and fastening consisting of two disks fitted on said barrel and embracing the inner ends of the spokes, the outer disk having an outturned peripheral rim and the inner disk having an outturned rim around its central opening, and a circular band surrounding said disks, notched and clasped at its inner end over the inner disk and formed at its outer end with a flange which extends inwardly past the edge of the rim on the outer disk, forming therewith an internal annular channel, substantially as described.

3. In a metal wh eel-hub the combination of a tubular barrel, having a spoke-flange and I fastening at one end composed of spoke-embracing disks, one of which is notched and composed of two spoke-embracing disks, the outer one of which has an outturned peripheral rim and a notched band surrounding said disks, clasped over the inner disk and having an inturned flange which abuts against the rim 011 the outer disk and forms therewith an internal annular channel, substantially as described.

4. In a metal wheel-hub the combination With a tubular barrel and wire spokes, of a spoke-flange and fastening consisting of two disks fitted and secured on said barrel and embracing between them the inner ends of the spokes and a circular band surrounding said disks, notched and clasped over the inner disk, clamping both disks against the spokes, and having an inturned flange at its outer end forming with the outer disk an internal annular channel, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD R. WVAGNER.

Witnesses:

OHAs. L. Goss, ALICE E. Goss. 

